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The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whate
by p0rkbelly 7y ago
The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whatever they want. This is exactly the same as the Khagoshi execution where overwhelming evidence and implication, but, play naive and put on a big sham investigation. Just how when Russian agents poisoned the Skripals and said they were their to view a church steeple.
- markdown 7y ago> The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whatever they want. You could be talking about the Trump and you'd still be correct. In fact Trump is worse, he didn't even try to cover up his assassination of Soleimani.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoThis does seem the most likely, as hard as it is to believe. I guess when you have hierarchies based on blood rather than competency, this is what you end up with.
- p0rkbelly 7y agoThat and no outside government has every held them accountable for anything. Or him accountable for anything.
- plumednom 7y agoThis is so true. Remember when his family crashed 4 jets in the USA while they were hanging out with Bush? (Really, this is all factual). Somehow they convinced us to invade Afghanistan and Iraq when it was a Saudi billionaire and a legion of Saudis who perpetrated the attack.
- TomMckenny 7y agoOf course, the nation that the Saudi's rely on for aid and military hardware could pressure them. But that would require some minimal commitment to human rights and a free press. And no personal desire to silence criticism from the WaPo by it's president.